I had high hopes for myself in regards to inktober, I thought "an ink drawing every day how hard can it be". It's not hard per se but I found it just so uninspiring, especially when I got behind in it and tried to catch up. In the end I only managed to do 11 before bailing on this completely.
I used the 'official' words list - my first mistake. I struggled to come up with creative ideas for the words list. I feel like I should have set myself a theme like "these will all be mushrooms" or something like that and owned it from the beginning, but I didn't - I fell into my old pattern of flitting from idea to idea.
I thought I could do them all in lino, as that is still ink. I had a lot of fun doing lino pieces, but some pieces were better, and already my inktobers were inconsistent. I think for me, trying to do lino was biting off more than I could chew as I couldn't really do one a day unless due to the times the print room was free to print in so I would have ended up trying to do five prints in one day.
I found some processes that I like though - I enjoy lino and I liked using papercut textures and ink together, I thought they gave a really cool effect which reflected my tone of voice.
Again it kind of feels like I'm giving up on stuff too easily but I was just so uninspired by this project, and since it wasn't a live brief or anything I had no reason to keep going with it. I was making sub-par work and would rather give the time I dedicated to inktober to a more worthwhile brief.
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